Forest v Villa Post-Match Thread

[frank]

3 at the back with 2 wingbacks is supposed to give you width but where was the width?

[Keeno]

Give it time and I think we'll gel as a team. Played some good stuff at times today as well as being frustrating but I think Bruce will get us there eventually. Honestly this club has gone through the mire since 2010 and it's gonna take time to turn around. I've already written off this season and hopefully next season will see us finally up and running.

I think this is my view too, despite the frustration I'm feeling right now. This squad, in 6/7 months time, will be good. And be good enough to get us back to the PL. 



.....I hope.

[Clampy]

There wasn't much width but I think overall it worked pretty well. I hope we try it again. It's not as if we didn't create any chances. We created enough to have won the game.

[aj2k77]

Fucking garbage Villa. usual shit. Player who's never scored, scores. Keeper fuck up. Goal at the end of first half. Goal in injury time.

Villa bingo. House.

Sick to death of this club and it's unrelenting bollocks it throws at you. Writing a season off in February in an atrocious league when you've spent approaching £50m or something, it's laughably shit now.

[PaulWinch again]

I thought Bree looked pretty good.

[PeterWithesShin]

You need either Baker going off injured or  key player being ruled out for the rest of the season for it to be Villa Golden Jackpot.

[Deano's Mullet]

I thought we played OK, certainly better than Forest and we kept making chances. We were the away side and we may not have had the ball in patches but we were still in control and limiting them to half chances. Gifted them that win, absolutely gifted them. Keeper is terrible and Jack's an idiot but Bruce's substitutions were baffling, first time I have questioned him. Forest probably can't believe their luck. Does any team concede as many 90th minute goals as we do?

[oswald funkletrumpet]

The money spent and we are 13 points off the play offs, the fucking play offs

Dont for one minute think that next season will be easier. The three sides coming down will be stronger than us when we came down and will have a more parachute money

if we dont get up next season heaven help us

[Tayls_7]

We haven't had a team fit to wear our name for years now. I've given up expecting to be entertained or even remotely proud of our displays but the amount of games we've had to endure since we even looked like we have the desire to out fight the opposition is beyond parody. I know we have bang average players. You realise it too Villa and grow some fucking balls.   

[supertom]

Complete guff as per normal. I still feel like this a huge gaping chasm between midfield and attack, and likewise the midfielders all seem to be too far apart. We're just one of the worst sides in the top two divisions, and have been for years, at playing intricate, quick and incisive football. It's good to mix it up. We've been at our best when we're quick and direct. But you have to be able to play high tempo, one touch football in small triangles, but our off the ball movement and team cohesion is woeful. Absolutely no change in that regard. Players don't show for the ball. The player on the ball, all too often looks up and has little option. Hourihane and Lansbury looked like they were on a different pitch to Grealish at times, and likewise he with the front two (aside from the goal and a few moments).

I think this still boils down to not only bad management, but also the lack of a player (STILL) who wants to just grab the game by the scruff of the neck. It's early days but hopefully Lansbury or Horihane can do this.

Johnstone is the worst keeper we've had this season. Have to be honest here. I quite liked Gollini, but in saying that, it was too soon. It's definitely too soon for Johnstone. Not signing a quality experienced keeper was a massive error, especially when we keep throwing massive sums on strikers.

On the positive, Kodjia, whilst frustrating, continues to offer enough individual ability to win games. Hogan also did quite well and a couple of times the pair linked well. I think because both are quick and work the channels well, there's definitely scope to play two up top.

Bree was good. Elphick still worries me and we definitely need Jedinak in away games.

[aj2k77]

3 at the back with wing backs is normally your standard panic mod when the panic button has been hit. I cant imagine he signed any of the new players with the thought of them being at their best in a wing back formation.

He's hit panic.

[Clampy]

3 at the back with wing backs is normally your standard panic mod when the panic button has been hit. I cant imagine he signed any of the new players with the thought of them being at their best in a wing back formation.

He's hit panic.

Standard panic? Did Brian Little panic when he tried it?

[aj2k77]

3 at the back with wing backs is normally your standard panic mod when the panic button has been hit. I cant imagine he signed any of the new players with the thought of them being at their best in a wing back formation.

He's hit panic.

Standard panic? Did Brian Little panic when he tried it?

20 years ago. I suppose we can still win the league with a squad of 14 too? Times change, the tactic now appears to be the last calling card of the panicky manager trying something/anything to change things.

[Oscar Arce]

I am beginning to get worried about Bruce now, he's constantly changing formation and playing players out of position, Hourihane is left sided so he plays him on the right, Landsbury plays further forward so he plays him deep, the Icelander isn't a wing back (Amavi on the bench is ridiclous), and the three centre back and wing back formation is what everybody turns to when they haven't a clue what to do.
I'll tell you what to do Bruce, play players in their correct positions in a formation that gives us a chance to win games, the most expensively assembled squad in Championship history defending and hitting teams like Brentford and Burton Albion on the break.
Disgrace.

It's a disgrace and I can remember us sinking even lower in our history but I think we are heading there again.

[goldenjimi]

Johnstone isnt the worst keeper this season,that is Bunn by some distance. Bunn is shocking,should never be in a Villa squad. Having said that Johnstone isnt much better! Out of the many fuck ups recently not sorting out an experienced keeper is right up there,bloody Guzan would have be better than the shower we have got!